James C. Maxwell Quotes

It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics?

Everything I do is somehow connected to velocity.

I love physics.

You can't argue with physics, mate.

They write them long because they can't write them short.

I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality.

All writing is by the grace of God. People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad. In these sentences that you show me, I can find no beauty, for I see death in every clause and every word. There is a fossil or a mummy character which pervades this book. The best sepulchers, the vastest catacombs, Thebes and Cairo, Pyramids, are sepulchers to me. I like gardens and nurseries. Give me initiative, spermatic, prophesying, man-making words.

Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.

To be alive──is Power.

A book should be luminous not voluminous.

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

And I feel faster than the speeding light.

Matter moves, but Ether is strained.

If you look at Einstein's equations and put in low speeds and low gravity, they become Newton's equations.

There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.

It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is

If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.

You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

Which was first, Matter or Force? If we think on this question, we shall find that we are unable to conceive of matter without force, or force without matter. When God created the elements of which the earth is composed, He created certain wondrous forces, which are set free and become evident when matter acts on matter.

As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.

The total quantity of all the forces capable of work in the whole universe remains eternal and unchanged throughout all their changes. All change in nature amounts to this, that force can change its form and locality, without its quantity being changed. The universe possesses, once for all, a store of force which is not altered by any change of phenomena, can neither be increased nor diminished, and which maintains any change which takes place on it.

Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.

We can wake ourselves up, discover in ourselves an energy that was hidden there, and act with more clarity, more force.

I've only suffered writer's block badly once, and that was during the writing of Chamber of Secrets. I had my first burst of publicity about the first book and it paralysed me. I was scared the second book wouldn't measure up, but I got through it!

...What you are is a force--a force that makes it possible for your body to live, a force that makes it possible for your whole mind to dream...You are life